The final whistle at Southampton marked the end of a long and taxing season for Jurgen Klopp and his Liverpool players.
But while the manager might reasonably have hoped for it to mark the start of some end-of-term holiday time, the Reds boss was instead expecting the hectic scheduling to continue. In fact, it was probably more of a demand given he had just come off the lowest finish of any of his seven full seasons at Anfield.
"I have a break - I don’t have training and those kinds of things - but a pretty busy period hopefully starts now as well in a different area of the game," Klopp said after the 4-4 draw at Southampton on May 28. It was a clear reference to the club being proactive ahead of the transfer window officially opening on June 14. "And I’m more than happy to do that. I will find time to re-energise and then we start again in July.”
